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From: mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum)
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Subject: Re: Why use U* over VMS
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Date: 5 Nov 90 21:49:18 GMT
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In article <EMERY.90Nov5145850@aries.linus.mitre.org> emery@linus.mitre.org (David Emery) writes:

>[...] will VIP come with a P1003.2-conformant shell?

	I'd expect that's "by definition". I don't know how it'll be
done, though - starting up processes on VMS is more expensive than
UNIX - long pipelines will probably not be a great deal of fun.
It'll be nice to finally be able to pass parameters to a program
in a reasonable manner... (unless P1003.2 has enough holes in it
that you get hit with "CAT /VERBOSE=TRUE/PACK=WHITSPACE/INPUT=FILE.TXT")

mjr.
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